[X] My Assistant

[torpidEccentric]

Shiro saw the Pokemon play around and said, "Heh, reminds me of Charmy. He really can't sit still without being entertained." He started to think about what might be happening.
Raine's probably just playing around now...
"Its pretty funny, and cute at the same time." Shiro said.

[Devolocy]

The nidoran hopped around in front of James happily all the while never straying her eyes too far away from the other poison rabbit pokemon. The remark Travis made barely made it to James' thoughts and he looked up with an icy gaze. He looked upon both pokemon without the slightest hint of a care and redirected his gaze towards Travis, "Hmmm it seems so." James took a glance at the book Travis was holding and noticed the cover was definitely different from the contents inside the book, he made no comment.

A hand slipped off the side of the book and into his jacket reaching for something. The hand found the pokeball it was searching for. James grasped it and slid it out of the pocket it was in. Not drawing to much attention to it he set it down on the table beside him and went back to his book. The hand made it back just in time to turn the page. "Queen," James started up, he was about to recall the pokemon, not liking having it out of the pokeball. Before the command was made though he remembered it was his mother's pokemon, "Have fun, don't stray to far." James left the ball on the table and continued reading, before he turned to the next page he looked over towards Travis, "Don't let either of them out of your sight."

[The Dark Knight]

"Sure thing!" Travis beamed giddily. It was nice to see the change in his Nidoran. He was always so serious and tense; Travis was more than happy to see him enjoy himself with his new crush. Since Squirtle's playmate had been stolen by the female Nidoran, Squirtle just couldn't much else do to besides annoy Travis while he was reading his handbook. Travis didn't mind it that much, as long as his pokemon were happy.

The summer tranquility continued on the deck for quite awhile until it began to get dark. Soon the Sunset could been seen beautifully in the horizon; the peachy pink colored rays shined marvelously on the cruise liner's inhabitants. Around 6:30 PM, Travis called his Nidoran back, reluctant to leave. Squirtle and Travis nearly had to tackle the little bunny before finally returning him to his pokeball with the promise that he would see his 'mate' or whatever the heck ya want to call it again soon.

With everything in tow, Travis returned to his room on the ship. It was untouched since he was last here, but for some reason the room emitted a strange feeling. Quite mysteriously a black tuxedo had been placed on the inside handle of his door. Travis did notice another sly change in the room, something that had been placed on his bed table: a card. it read, "Table 37". Travis put two and two together and not only did he get four, but he figured out it was his assigned table for the formal dinner. He had seen some of the tables earlier: very fancy with four to five chairs at a table.

Seeing as it was around 6:45, Travis put on the suit that strangely enough fit him perfectly. "They must take this 'formal' thing quite seriously," Travis thought, "And good thinking to. How many trainers would one expect to carry around a tux on their journey? Well, except for that one guy...but whatever." Travis placed his two pokeballs in his inside jacket pocket, locked his door with a room key and made his way down to the Grand Hall, where the dinner was to be held.

This post has been edited by The Dark Knight: Jan 5 2009, 09:55 PM

[Shadow Dragon]

As the sun had started to set, Emily had said good bye to Shiro and made her way to her cabin. Her three pokemon had followed her to the cabin after catching sight of her leavening, Citrine was on her shoulder and Tanzanite and Emerald walked behind her. It was more peace in the hallways then before, but it still seemed like there was a lot of people in there.

Quickly, Emily entered the small room and her pokemon went to different spots in the room. The velvet red carpet shimmered in the afternoon sun, and the cream colored walls showed in a littler color. Emily did notice a small card and purple dress lying on her bed. Walking over to the bed, she noticed the card saying “Table 37” on the front. Remembering, Emily had passed the dining room on her way to the front deck. About 5 chairs where at each tables, and everyone there looked like they where hard at work setting up for the dinner.

Glancing at the clock it read 6:47, in a minute Emily had changed into the dark red dress lined with deep purple fur at the bottom. It shone like diamonds agents the evening sun. “Ri?” Emily herd turning around, seeing Tanzanite holding a red ribbon in her hand.

“Tanzanite, you will have to stay in her ball for now until the dinner is over.” Emily said as she walked over to the dark wood dresser and started to comb her hair. Looking back, she say the disappointed face on the small blue pokemon.

“Ill tell you, once we get off this boat, ill take you and the others out to eat.” She said putting her hair into a out of her eyes. Now, instead of a disappointed pokemon, Tanzanite was happy as ever.

“Now you three, back to your pokeballs.” Emily said as returned her pokemon into there pokeballs and put the into a small pocket on the side of her dress. It was only 6:59 when Emily had locked the door and made her way into the dinning room, remembering her table was table 37.

[torpidEccentric]

Shiro left to his cabin, bracing himself for what mess Charmy could have done. However, he saw everyone of his Pokémon asleep.
"Well, and I thought something bad was gonna happen..." , Shiro whispered to himself.
He reached and returned all of his Pokémon to their Pokéballs. He then went into his bag and took out a black business suit he had bought before he left. He then took off his hat, put on his formal attire, and gelled his hair back. He then noticed there was a card on the crimson colored carpeted entrance of his cabin. He picked up the card, and read the 2 words inprinted on it.
'Table 37' it read.
"Alrighty then, to the dinner!" He said a bit nervous since he never really attend anything fancy.
He placed his Pokéballs into pockets located on the inside of his jacket, locked the door after he left, and started for the dinner location.

[The Dark Knight]

Travis did not have to wait long at the table of five chairs for people to arrive. Soon they started flooding in; trainers of all ethnicities and races; it was something different for Travis. The filled up the entire room, about thirty or so tables. All of the guests were dressed in their most formal wear and none of them had their pokemon out. Travis turned back to his own table just in time to see three people arrive at his table. There was a rather exotic looking girl and a plain looking boy that had arrived both at nearly the same time. Travis immediately stood up and shook both of their hands.

"Hello, my name is Travis Lapzuli," he uttered, remembering his mother's wise words of formality with strangers and trying to live by them. "Please, sit down".

Then another boy walked into the room. This one was much larger, maybe even close to a foot taller than the 12-year old Travis. Travis immediately recognized him as the boy from the pool deck. He looked exactly the same as he had saw him before; as his suit was perfectly fitting for the occasion. "Hello again," Travis spoke to him. They all sit down and wondered who the final member of the table was going to be as a familiar short man got up on a nearby stage and walked up to a microphone. Travis and everyone turned to listen, as he probably had important stuff to say.

This post has been edited by The Dark Knight: Jan 25 2009, 07:52 AM

[Milo]

Room 125 was the number on the white and rusted up door. A feint sound was coming from the room behind it; the noise was coming from an average sized kneeling figure next to the bin. He wore a black T-shirt and long trousers, a sleeveless jacket and an ocean blue cap lay on the bed beside him.

An average sized, male Nidoran sat obediently beside him, trying to comfort him. He had been kneeling next to the small, vomit-filled bin for nearly an hour now. The noise came again as he threw up into the bin, a large, snow-white Seel made a noise that echoed in the small room. “Shut up, Seel” yelled the handsome young man.

When he finally felt better, he started to go through his things; his bag was labeled “Ryan Bent”. He took out a clean shirt, threw off the dirty one, and put the clean one on, both were black, next he put on his cap and jacket and packed everything he didn’t need back into the small bag. He recalled the playful Seel and calm, collected Nidoran and left the small room.

He entered the hallway; the stairwell was across from his room. He was halfway up the staircase when he noticed all the people upstairs were dressed up and wearing their formal clothes. Ryan decided to go back to the room and change himself. He put on a pair of black trousers, a white shirt, a white jacket and a black tie. He quickly put on his smartest shoes and left for dinner.

This post has been edited by Milo: Jan 30 2009, 09:07 AM

[torpidEccentric]

"Hello, my name is Travis Lapzuli," he uttered, remembering his mother's wise words of formality with strangers and trying to live by them. "Please, sit down".

"Thanks, Its a pleasure to meet you. I'm Shiro." He said shaking his hand and then sitting down after he let Emily sit down first, then he sat down. Just as the other boy sat down, the MC tapped the microphone a couple of times before clearing his voice.

[Milo]

He exited the room and climbed up the stairs, this time there was nobody in the hallway above.
“God, I’m late again” Ryan uttered to himself.

He entered the large dining hall; it was easily twice the size of his home back in Mahogany. The whole room was dimly lit by candles on each table. The tables had black table clothes draped over them, with red velvet on top of those. The dining plates were set with silver spoons and wine glasses beside them. The walls had also been entirely covered by black curtains.

As Ryan entered the room the large wooden doors creaked open and every eye in the room turned to him. He took out a small piece of paper he found in his room and walked to his allocated table. As he took his seat everybody went back to what they were doing before he entered.

Ryan showed no notice of the other people at the table, but as he tried to ignore them, a slightly older boy extended his hand and said “Hi, I’m Shiro!” Ryan shook his hand and looked up at his face, an instant liking formed like he had with Pryce, at least he had met someone now.

This post has been edited by Milo: Jan 25 2009, 01:35 PM

[Shadow Dragon]

As Emily entered the dinning room, it dazzled in the dim candle lights. Each table was draped with a black table cloth, set with silver ware, a polished white plates, and wine glasses set ontop. Emily's heels clicked on the dark wood floors as she made her way to the table. Already, there was a young man sitting there. Already the room was starting to fill, and Emily had saw Shiro come in after her. Sitting at the table, Emily had noticed that it had become rather awkward for her being the only woman at the table.

As every one was finally seated, Emily looked around at her table. The only person she recognized was Shiro, making it a little more awkward for her. Soon, a man came onto the stage, tapping on the mice three times to get everyone’s attention. Everyone turned to him as if he had something important to say now.

[The Dark Knight]

"Greetings trainers! I shake thee warmly by the hand" the short man on stage said awkwardly, obviously reading from a notecard. In frustration, the man threw the notecard on the ground and spoke improvisedly. "My name is Kono Ruisvr and I'll be your host while here on the mighty, unsinkable SS ANNE! While today was a day of fun in the sun, tomorrow will be filled with intense battles, and all of you trainers will be competing for the grand prize! Have a wonderful meal and a great night!" Kono finished. He stepped dow and the people clapped for him.

Live music began playing in the grand ballroom as food was brought out and set in front of the travelers. Travis immediately began eating; he was starved. Another member of the table began a conversation and Travis listened in.

[Milo]

Ryan looked at the short man on stage, not really paying attention to what he was saying. One thing that he did hear was the news about the “intense battling” tomorrow. Ryan had never enjoyed dinners; in fact he didn’t enjoy much. Ryan felt the ultra ball on his belt shaking a bit, Seel was obviously getting annoyed.

The food was set in front of him, starters first. He ate a lot after everything had eaten earlier had come out in the bin.

Another person at the table started a conversation, Ryan noticed a small boy across the table listening in. He didn’t care and wasn’t hoping to get involved in a conversation now. Then he noticed the short man from the stage approaching the table, there were no seats left and the man looked like he wanted to sit down. Ryan looked at the table number and said “Oh sorry, wrong table”, it wasn’t the wrong table, but he didn’t really care. He took a seat at a nearby table and thought to himself, about the journey he was about to go on, about the tournament the next day, about Pryce, about his parents and finally, about his Pokémon.

Umm... there were too many people at the table, DK said 4-5 chairs and we had Ryan, Travers, Shiro, Emily, short guy and suit guy.
Besides TSS has to have someone to talk to when she joins so she can come sit at my table.
400th Post as well!!!

This post has been edited by Milo: Jan 30 2009, 03:27 PM

[TSS]

Millennia wandered around the enormous ship, wondering where everyone was and if she was supposed to be there too. A slight pitter-patter of clawed paws could be heard on the floor next to her; her Shinx. Sighing, Millennia began to wonder what she could do on this boat, if she actually found anyone anyway.

"I don't think we'd get far, would we?" she questioned her little blue tiger, "Depends really, I guess..."
Shinx continued padding across the floor with a dancing twinkle in his eyes, certainly meaning that he wouldn't lose anymore. The courage and belief in itself that her Shinx carried made Millennia smile. It wasn't every Pokemon who was like this. As she relaxed, a slight sound of a gathering of people made its way into Millennia's in-alert ears.

"Shinx, you hear that?! C'mon, let's go!" she cried, increasing her steady, rhythmical pace to a swift dash. As she sped ahead, the ambling Shinx got left behind, making it grumpy. It quickened its step and upon catching sight of its trainer, performed a flying leap, landing directly on her shoulder. Millennia winced slightly as the Pokemon's sharp claws dug into her skin, but she did not push it off. Only did she roll her eyes and say, "One of these days, you're going to hurt me badly." As she finished the sentence however, she suddenly stopped walking. A pair of great doors decorated with strange swirly patterns swung open to reveal a great dinner party sort of thing going on.
A short man was standing on a stage speaking words of welcome to the party-goers. Paying no attention, she smoothed her thick locks and went into the room. As she looked around, she saw no tables with a free space for her.

"Humph. Way to go, Millennia. This is what you get for being late," she thought sarcastically.
She walked around the room, making sure that there wasn't a space in the back, being noticed by no one, they were all too busy eating. Not that she particularly cared, but it's nice to be thought about sometimes. Millennia walked along, staring into the shimmering colourful lights on the ceiling. She stared for minutes on end, without blinking until the point where it got scary. All of a sudden her brain, which was clouded up with thoughts, received a message that her eyes had seen what she was looking for. Millennia came back down to Earth and strode over to the near-empty table.

"Excuse me? Do you mind if I sit here?" she politely asked the boy sitting there already. He looked up, seeming to have been unaware of his surroundings.

[Milo]

"Excuse me? Do you mind if I sit here?" she politely asked the boy sitting there already. He looked up, seeming to have been unaware of his surroundings.

“Huh… Oh, n-no not at all”, Ryan hadn’t expected anyone to want to sit in a dark table in the corner, especially with a person as withdrawn as Ryan.

“Uh… w-well take a seat” Ryan stuttered, he always stuttered around girls, he stood up and pulled out the seat for her. His mother had always taught him to be polite to ladies and he had great respect for them. After she sat down, Ryan took a seat aswell and said “My names Ryan, Ryan Bent, and yours?”

This post has been edited by Milo: Jan 26 2009, 11:54 AM

[TSS]

"Millennia Scarlett. Yes, millennia as in the plural of millennium," Millennia smiled, slightly perplexed at Ryan's stuttering. She decided to ignore it and thought of something to say that might spark up a good conversation. She looked at the floor where Shinx was having a good game of "Try and knock the table over." With a swift but gentle kick of hers, Shinx hopped onto Millennia's lap and stayed there as she stroked it. She giggled nervously and said,

"Why, this floor's rather wobbly, ain't it? Anyway, you like to battle?" Quickly changing the subject, as her attempt to cover up Shinx's mistake was failing, was the only thing Millennia could think of doing. It was easy to know that she was failing from the disbelieving look on Ryan's face. Even so, he answered normally as if nothing had happened.
"Y-yeah, I do. I h-have a Nidoran and a Seel. Both rock."
Upon hearing this information, Millennia got a mild feeling of surprise.
"Really? You have a Seel too?" she asked, actually inquisitive this time, "I have a Shinx as well, and he's a pest!"
"The one who shook the t-table yeah?"

Millennia thought for a second before she nodded, hoping that Ryan would not think badly of her lie before. After all, she had grown up to be truthful, and if she wasn't there were bad consequences. Her stomach began to feel sick as she thought more about it, but Ryan only continued the conversation, without his stutter now.

[Milo]

Ryan ignored her lie and continued talking.

“Well, my Seel’s never lost a battle, I use to live in Mahogany and train in Pryce’s gym, you know him?” Ryan spoke more confidently now.

“Yes, uh… when I got Seel I looked up the world’s best Ice Pokémon trainers and Pryce came up again and again, I ended up going for contests with Seel, anyway and the Nidoran?”
“Yeah… Nidoran is the one I’m really proud of, he has lost two battles, Seel managed to cover him though, so I’m currently undefeated. That’ll probably change soon.” Ryan felt dumb, being so negative.

He’d never felt this comfortable with a girl before, not even his own mother, it was kind of weird.
“Have you used the Shinx in battle before?” Ryan asked “I had a friend in Pewter with a Luxray, most powerful Pokemon I’ve ever seen, other than Pryce’s Dewgong of course, he’s why I chose to catch Seel. He’s living up to my expectations so far.”

This post has been edited by Milo: Jan 26 2009, 01:46 PM

[TSS]

"If I had never used Shinx in a battle before, he'd go crazy! So, yes, I have, but I've never won any battles, with or without using him," Millennia admitted, "I'm not the best battler and never will be."
Ryan smiled sympathetically, well not exactly a smile but...
"I'm sure you could be good, after all, you've only just started, right?" he said, bringing Millennia a bit of confidence. The strange thing was, she barely ever listened to pep-talks. She nodded in answer to the question and pulled Shinx off of her lap. It whined and tried to push it's way back there. Millennia looked at it in a way that made it stop. It's weird, the affect a simple look can have on a living thing. Her eyes shone suddenly as she came up with an idea, and it sort of made her think of the light bulb and idea thing.

"Do you happen to want to battle? Shinx would love to, and after all, I do need practice..." Millennia questioned, bringing her idea to life.
"Well..." Ryan started, but was cut off by Millennia, who was incredibly quick.
"If you don't want to that's fine too!"
"No, I do, but there's a lot of people and noise here," Ryan finished.
"Oh, you're right. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone." Millennia replied, hoping that soon something would happen if she couldn't battle. Maybe they would be allowed to leave the room and go somewhere other than the room full of din they were in at the moment.

Millennia thought about battling for a while. Would she be able to win if she tried? Shinx wasn't amazing, and Seel was no star. Not even rising. The whole 'Millennia Team' were at the bottom.
"Be positive," she ordered herself.

All of a sudden, a tap on the microphone echoed through the room, making Millennia's ears throb. From the look of the people around her, she wasn't alone. All attention went to the stage where the man who was on stage when Millennia entered cleared his throat. As he started, Millennia thought,
"That's strange, I never heard him stop talking before..."
"Ah-hem, attention everyone! It is now time for... for..." the man looked around for guidance.
"Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. Please wait a moment."

"Wonder what's going on?" Millennia asked her friend.

This post has been edited by The Serenity Spirit: Mar 1 2009, 05:20 AM

[The Dark Knight]

The man looked behind him and was given a thumbs up from an unseen hand. "It is time for the dessert!' He announced as waiters and waitresses seamlessly picked up the dirty dishes on the tables. They then replaced them with the person's choice of a slice of chocolate or vanilla cake. In a minute the army of waiters had completed their tasks and had left. There was clapping from the audience, it was quite an impressive sight to see the job of changing platters done so quickly! "As you all eat your desserts, I would like to remind you that there are no pokemon battles to be conducted tonight; we have no pokemon centers on board and we want everyone to be at full health for the competition tomorrow!" he cheered. Kono was obviously excited. "Now, back to Murkee and his Murkettes latest hit, Perish". The man stepped down from the microphone and walked up to the table Travis was sitting in. "I expect great battles from all of you tomorrow," the man winked to them. He then strolled off out a door and left the travelers.

Travis thought the food was good, but definitely not like the gourmet he was used to back in the archipelago. His palette just wasn't as receptive to the new tastes as he would have liked, and the food didn't taste like anything he had known. He was glad to see a familiar face however: Vanilla cake with custard and whipped cream. Travis loved desserts if anything, and his mother never failed to indulge his sweet tooth. The table's conversation had been rather dull, so Travis decided he was going strike up some small talk.

"So...Where are you guys headed in Furoh?"

[torpidEccentric]

Shiro was eating. Moderately of course, even though this was great tasting. His mom wasn't much of a cook, so he was enjoying it. He then was served his desert, when Travis asked where they were headed.
Shiro looked up and said, "I don't know really. I want to challenge the league there, since my brother told me it was a great start instead of going to the Sinnoh league."

He then took the Chocolate Fudge Moist Brownie cake and began to eat it. He then asked Travis, "I have a quick question, did you sent me that card to go and sit at this table?"

[Milo]

“Well, guess we won’t be having that battle tonight” Ryan noticed Millennia’s obvious disappointment.

“I can’t wait for the tournament; Nidoran’s been itching for a battle!” Ryan paused for a moment, “I wonder what the prize is, hope it’s something useful and not a medal or something I’ll never be able to use” Ryan hinted his confidence in his Pokémons’ ability to win the tournament.

Ryan never talked much; the night’s conversation was more than he would normally speak over an entire week.

“This is gonna be a long trip, I cannot wait to get into Furoh, where’s this ship going by the way, Pryce never told me?”